DNS Failover – Web Hosting

2009-09-22 DNS, Host Header, IP Address, Server Harry Caskey 0

If you are a hosting environment that is in more than one geographic location you will need to know DNS fail-over. This is a built in feature within DNS. Let’s say you are going to host a website, well you would configure your registrars DNS so that your A-Record’s (i.e. “www”, “@(no address)”) point to […]

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Infinite Switch Loop

2009-07-30 Consistent Rate, Constant Flashing, Lights Looping, Linksys, Loop, Netgear, Repeat, Repeater, Spanning Tree Protocol, STP, Switch Is Repeating Harry Caskey 0

If your switch is repeating, looping, flashing constantly at a consistent rate this may help you. You probably have what’s called a network loop. Where all the switches start repeating themselves this can be corrected by removing any computer with a network bridge on the network. Or enable the STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) on the […]

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Exchange 2007 – OWA Did Not Initialize

2009-04-21 Exchange 2007, Outlook Web Access, OWA, Server Harry Caskey 0

It is common practice to keep your server up to date. I came across this error while updating my Exchange Server 2007 to the next service pack. I found many different methods to fix this problem on the internet but none of them worked. Below was the error message I received when trying to visit […]

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Exchange 2007 – Corrupt Public Folders

2009-04-08 Defragment, E-Mail, Eseutil, Exchange 2007, Information Technology, PowerShell, Public Folder, Repair Harry Caskey 0

I thought today I would blog about an experience I had with Exchange Server 2007 last June 16th, 2008 we had a power outage early in the morning which resulted in server failures across the board.  This then caused a chain reaction when the backup domain controller went down. The Active Directory systems dropped off […]

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Active Directory

2009-04-07 Active Directory, Information Technology, Intranets, Network Administrator, Systems Administrator, Virtual Machines Harry Caskey 0

Active Directory is truly the heart of an organization. You might even say if a computer system were a human being it would be the brain spanning all knowledge of the system. It is a central repository for all data regarding users, groups, computers, printers, shared folders, contacts, and policies. This store all information into […]

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